{"id":11185,"date":"2021-08-18T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/financial-warfare-afghan-central-banks-10b-confiscated-by-us-biden-halts-usd-shipments-to-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:54:13","slug":"financial-warfare-afghan-central-banks-10b-confiscated-by-us-biden-halts-usd-shipments-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/financial-warfare-afghan-central-banks-10b-confiscated-by-us-biden-halts-usd-shipments-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Warfare: Afghan Central Bank\u2019s $10B Confiscated by US, Biden Halts USD Shipments to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The war in Afghanistan has been an extremely long conflict since the United States invaded the country in 2001, in order to drive the Taliban from power. After a messy exit, the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan has been compared to mistakes made during the Vietnam War. Now that U.S. forces have left Kabul in great numbers, reports show that the New York branch of the Federal Reserve has confiscated $10 billion worth of the Afghanistan central bank\u2019s assets. Moreover, last week the Biden administration halted dollar shipments that were headed to Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>America\u2019s \u2018Messy\u2019 Afghanistan Exit Transforms Into Financial War<\/h2>\n<p><span>The Afghanistan War that the U.S. participated in has been a long-running foreign policy embarrassment for American bureaucrats who backed the invasion. 2021\u2019s \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)\"><span>fall of Kabul<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d has been a messy exit and critics of the United State\u2019s military-industrial complex have compared the Afghanistan War to the Vietnam War. Addressing the American public, president Joe Biden explained that despite the \u201cmessy\u201d exit, \u201cthere was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since U.S. forces left last week, there\u2019s been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/panic-afghani-crashes-after-central-bank-chief-flees-says-no-more-dollars-left\">shortage of U.S. dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>However, since the exit, the number of U.S. troops being sent back to Afghanistan has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/afghanistan-updates-us-airport-operations-continue-taliban-negotiate\/story?id=79464831\"><span>risen to 6,000<\/span><\/a><span>. Additionally, the U.S. is still leveraging financial warfare as the Afghanistan central bank\u2019s $10 billion in assets are being held by the U.S. and allied forces. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dab.gov.af\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-08\/Monthly%20Financial%20statement%20%20for%20the%20month%20of%20Jawza%20%201400%20%28English%29%20%20.pdf\"><span>reports<\/span><\/a><span>, the central bank of Afghanistan\u2019s assets included $1.3 billion in gold and $361 million in international currencies. Afghanis have zero access to these funds because the assets are being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/afghan-central-banks-10-billion-stash-not-all-within-reach-taliban-2021-08-17\/\"><span>held<\/span><\/a><span> in financial institutions like the New York branch of the Federal Reserve (FRBNY).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is (or rather was) $160 million worth of gold bars and silver coins held at the Afghanistan bank&#8217;s vault at the presidential palace.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zerohedge\/status\/1427996848539766784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>FRBNY holds afghani gold bars worth $1.3 billion which account for more than half of the Afghan central bank\u2019s gold reserves. A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dab.gov.af\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-04\/DA%20AFGHANISTAN%20BANK%20CONSOLIDATED%20FINANCIAL%20STATEMENTS%20FOR%20THE%20YEAR%20ENDED%20QAWS%20301399%20%28DECEMBER%20202020%29final.pdf\"><span>consolidated statement<\/span><\/a><span> indicates that FRBNY holds roughly $6.1 billion of all assets. The Afghan central bank won\u2019t be seeing these funds any time soon as the American government believes it would fall into the hands of Taliban forces. Moreover, last week the Biden administration halted shipments of U.S. dollars being sent to Afghanistan to keep the funds away from Taliban members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- growjs zone placement 31 -->    <!-- end of growjs zone placement --> <\/p>\n<h2>NY Fed, US Banks, and the Biden Administration Work to Prevent Access to Afghani Funds<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-halted-dollar-shipments-to-afghanistan-to-keep-cash-out-of-talibans-hands-11629233621?mod=hp_lead_pos8\">Sources<\/a> familiar with the matter say the U.S. has an Afghani financial blockade set up as the Federal Reserve and other U.S. financial institutions are \u201cworking to prevent\u201d access to the funds. For some reason, the Biden administration and allied forces wholeheartedly believe the bank assets of the Afghan government should be policed and sanctioned. \u201cAny central bank assets the Afghan government has in the United States will not be made available to the Taliban,\u201d a Biden administration official remarked to the press.<\/p>\n<p>AFGHANISTAN CENTRAL BANK HAS $10 BILLION IN ASSETS, BUT A MAJORITY OF THE FUNDS ARE HELD BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE IN NEW YORK -RTRS<\/p>\n<p>And now the gold is gone. All gone<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zerohedge\/status\/1427777946677301253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The added forces since the so-called departure from Afghanistan and the economic sanctions show the U.S. is not willing to pull out from policing the world so easily. Afghanistan will likely have issues with the financial system monopolized by the global central banking system the same way many other nation-states are excluded because of the opinions of the American bureaucracy. Nation-states like North Korea, Venezuela, Turkey, Iran, and now Afghanistan will feel the wrath of financial weaponry and economic exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of the Biden administration halting dollar shipments this past week was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/p6q04g\/us_halted_dollar_shipments_to_afghanistan_to_keep\/\">popular topic<\/a> on the bitcoin-focused Reddit forum r\/bitcoin. Many believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/bitcoin.pdf\">Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s invention<\/a> was created to bypass the opinions of financial central planners and the whims of bureaucrats.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you think about the U.S. Federal Reserve and Biden administration continuing to police Afghanistan with financial weaponry? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin News<br \/>\nEconomics, $10 Billion in assets, Afghan central bank, Afghanistan War, Allied Forces, Biden Administration, Bitcoin, Borderless Funds, Economic sanctions, Federal Reserve, financial war, Iran, Joe Biden, New York Federal Reserve, north korea, NY Fed, Sanctions, Satoshi Nakamoto, Taliban, Turkey, US banks, US Forces, Venezuela, Vietnam War, war in Afghanistan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Afghanistan has been an extremely long conflict since the United States invaded the country in 2001, in order to drive the Taliban from power. After a messy exit, the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan has been compared to mistakes made during the Vietnam War. Now that U.S. forces have left Kabul in great&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}